5/26/2023 0 Comments Dune messiah 1969![]() ![]() ![]() But new fans coming to the books by way of the film may struggle to find the proper starting place. ![]() With the first half of Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation out and doing brisk business, Dune may finally achieve a comparable breakthrough in pop culture. They are similarly epic in scope, both authors died before completing the final expansions of their worlds, and both had sons who took up the mantle. Tolkien may have recoiled at this remark if he ever heard it, but the two works have certainly had comparable impacts on their respective genres (even if Lord of the Rings penetrated further into the wider culture). Clarke, once said of Frank Herbert’s Dune, “I know of nothing comparable to it except Lord of the Rings.” J.R.R. Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for the Dune book series.Fellow sci-fi scribe, Arthur C. ![]()
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